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On 4/1/2011 7:56 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
...
> The documentation for the sensor data
> <http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html>
> says
>
>      Note: This sensor type exists for legacy reasons, please use
>      getRotationMatrix() in conjunction with remapCoordinateSystem() and
>      getOrientation() to compute these values instead.

I *think* this comment refers to using e.g. Sensor.TYPE_ORIENTATION 
directly. Instead, if I'm reading the documentation correctly, you are 
supposed to take the values from a TYPE_ACCELEROMETER and 
TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD and feed them to getRotationMatrix().

>
> Trouble is, none of those API calls mentioned actually reads any sensor
> values
> <http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorManager.html>,
> they only perform computations.
>
>